# Jake Van Vorhis > Staff Software Engineer & Tech Lead | Former Founder Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jake My greatest strengths are my undying curiosity, a bias for action, empathy for the user, and a passion for innovative technologies and great teams. I've been a founder of a startup, and I know how to look at the big picture and the minute detail simultaneously. I'm an ongoing contributor in the open source community. JavaScript, Go, TypeScript, React, Node, Deno, SQL & NoSQL and a large smattering of various frameworks and technologies among them. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer & Tech Lead @ Virtru Jan 2024 – Present ° Architected reusable agentic LLM scanning of software output to detect leaks of contextually sensitive/secret material, including from dependencies. ° Optimized database indices/queries, deployment, and caching strategies to achieve hot path API throughput >5x higher than throughput SLA. ° From browser to database, I write, design, and help lead our team in creating performant, secure, observable, scalable, properly tested, and innovative software. ° Tech Lead with a team of 3 Senior Engineers owning significant breadth over platform administration of ABAC authz policy over TDF, key management, content handling, and platform extensibility/governance. ° I derisk project goals and define timelines by proving out system designs and new feature implementations before breaking them down into meaningful scopes of work. ° I scale impact and velocity by propagating knowledge/documentation throughout the Engineering organization to break down silos, spend attention on DX to reduce friction, and encourage best practices. ° I collaborate with our Architects to translate high-level product/engineering needs into sequenced and ownable work. ### Senior Full Stack Software Engineer 2 @ Virtru Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 ° Open Source key contributor to OpenTDF platform for data-centric security: https://github.com/opentdf/platform ° Open Source key contributor 'otdfctl' (administration UX of the platform): https://github.com/opentdf/otdfctl ° Contributor to various proprietary and premium product offerings built on top of the open platform ° Technologies: Go, PostgreSQL, gRPC, Buf, Docker, Github Actions, Cobra, JavaScript/TypeScript, etc ### Senior Full Stack Software Engineer @ Virtru Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 ° Key member of a cross-team effort to upgrade our authentication protocol to OpenID Connect (OIDC) impacting and leading several company-wide architecture decisions resulting in a clean, scalable, secure, easy-to-adopt implemented system design supporting several disparate products ° Continuously stewarded our feature flagging efforts as usage expands throughout our Engineering organization ° Leader in bringing enhanced observability tooling to our front-end applications in a secure, scalable, cost-effective, and powerful manner resulting in improved experiences for Customer Support, Product, Engineering, and UX teams (including one key product several million sessions per month) ° Engaged and active contributor to Architecture, Security, Design System, and various Engineering Guild discussions ° Built and maintained multiple reusable GitHub Actions for usage across code base CI/CD pipelines ° Key contributor to the effort to migrate various internal JavaScript and TypeScript libraries from standalone repo's to a monorepo with a shared CI pipeline with the eventual goal of saving hundreds of engineering hours per year spent upgrading dependencies and resolving vulnerabilities ° Virtru hackathon People's Choice winning team member with a dynamic, generative AI-powered, schema-driven, product proof of concept ### Full Stack Software Engineer @ Virtru Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 ° Architected a new search microservice in Go, designing and implementing publicly exposed API with concurrency, integration with existing CI/CD and k8s infrastructure, production readiness, and ongoing performance monitoring ° Winner of a quarterly engineering award to recognize outstanding technical contributions ° Led an effort to evaluate paid and open source accessibility testing tools, then implemented e2e accessibility tests within the CI/CD pipeline for two products ° Utilized React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, Go, and various YAML/config and script languages to support new feature development, bug fixes, and support of legacy codebase across multiple applications ° Spearheaded a feature-flagging SaaS-vendor evaluation, then built the internal company-wide process documentation and governance including the use of OpenFeature ° Hosted a feature flags knowledge-share across engineering/product/design orgs about best & worst practices of feature flags to minimize tech debt and utilize flags effectively ### Software Engineer @ DenoStore (Open Source) Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 ° Built a performant and optimization-focused caching dev tool for apps using GraphQL with a server running Oak/Deno with caching at the resolver-level to allow modularity and abstract away complexity ° Worked with Deno as an exciting alternative to Node with stronger security, native TypeScript, top-level await and ability to meaningfully contribute to a growing ecosystem without existing robust support ° Utilized TypeScript to develop the tool with strong, static typing for a more maintainable, scalable code base and useful IntelliSense to assist both our tool’s users during implementation and future contributors during development ° Architected DenoStore for use with Oak to leverage its middleware design pattern and popularity for maximum utility ° Incorporated Redis for the caching functionality of the DenoStore tool, taking advantage of its efficient in-memory storage resulting in incredibly performant API/server calls, reduction in total calls to external API’s from server due to cache, and excellent speed optimization along with optional cache expiration functionality ° Designed caching tool for and with GraphQL because of its strong query schema for clarity of data shape and type between client and server, and solution to over- and under-fetching data all at a single route endpoint ° Developed tool’s demo website in React for its client-side rendering React-Router, reusable components, state hooks ° Strongly typed app state, component props, and functionality of demo site components with TypeScript in React for improved readability and maintainability for future contributors ° Containerized demonstration web app with Docker to deploy Deno server and DenoStore cache ° Configured Webpack during buildout of DenoStore demo web app for hot module reloading on update ° Utilized D3.js library to build query time reduction demonstration visual to auto-scale and update with user interaction ° Developed DenoStore under the open source tech accelerator OSLabs ### COO & Co-founder @ Airo Collective Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | Sacramento, California Area ° Evaluated ecommerce platforms and SaaS suite for most scalable and performant stack, contributed to design and A/B testing of website UI and conversion strategy, and hired and interfaced with developers for ecommerce store site ° Configured API connections between platform and various apps, technologies, and tools ° Led operations from Kickstarter launch of DTC brand to 4 years of growth and $3M+ total revenue ## Education ### Bachelor's of Science in Business Administration in Business Management, Summa Cum Laude San Francisco State University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jakedoublev - GitHub: https://github.com/jakedoublev --- Source: https://flows.cv/jake JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jake/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-20